Check out this amazing image of Venus and the Milky Way – taken from inside the city of Singapore – this morning (February 28, 2014). Our friend Justin Ng wrote:
My dream to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy in Singapore has finally come true this morning after the monsoon season is over.
Singapore is known for its heavy light pollution and many people believe that it’s impossible to shoot stars and Milky Way in Singapore. This image aims to prove the popular belief wrong, and I hope to inspire more astrophotographers residing in heavily light polluted city to try to capture these ‘impossible’ images.
This is a single exposure shot of planet Venus and the Milky Way galaxy in Singapore. The light pollution near the horizon was also apparent.
Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. In 2020, she won the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.
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